Sunday, March 18, 2012

A cooking pan can help you Lose Weight

I know it sounds simplistic, but any step you take surrounding your exercise and your eating habits are going to impact how your body will lose weight. The most amazing thing about your body is that if you add a little bit of walking and exercise to your day, you will be heading in a great direction to lose weight. The best process to lose weight with your food begins with thinking about the food choices you accept, and eventually all the way to what kind of food you choose and how you prepare it.

Good food Choices Start to Help You Lose Weight

Your options on food should always be foods that offer great nutrition and value for vitamins and minerals. High fat, high sodium and high sugar foods are not going to be good choices. Neither are these options when you buy them in a frozen meal, and then cook them in the pan or container that the come in. Often, frozen meals are over 500mg of sodium in each meal, and they offer few nutritional goodies like vitamin C, B1 or B6, or calcium and magnesium. Your foods should be fresh when you can find them, and should always be from the produce and the meat areas of the store. Skip the processed and shelf stored foods, unless you are buying canned tomatoes, peppers or rice. Your starchy chips, cereals, and cookies are only going to bring you spiraling down a progression of unhealthy choices, and it is really important that you limit your intake of anything that has large chemical additives.

How you cook your food is another really important step. By using a Stainless Steel pan, you are going to be a winner, as it will not leach into your food like a Teflon or non-stick pan. The chemicals that keep your pan non-stick, are loose in nature, and they will skim from your pan into your food. The most important take away you can know from this blog is that chemicals will make you fat. Chemicals and preservatives keep your Liver, the king of fat reducing organs, from performing its best job for your body; having time to remove fat.

The Most Important Take Away is Keep Your Food Chemically Free

By allowing your liver time to work only on fat removal, you are allowing your body to create a fat burning furnace of sorts. With ample free energy to quit removing chemicals from your diet, your liver is going to be on a mission to help you lose weight. You are going to find your body feels better, your skin clears up, and your mind thinks more clearly. Your chemically laden diet is the cause of your inability to lose weight, and the only way you can lose weight, is if you allow your body time to clear away fat. Your liver is overwhelmed when you are overweight. It is not working correctly, it is really becoming more of a small filter, letting all fat through, and very little chemical control as it tries to keep up with your diet of processed and chemically laden food. Have you ever gone on a diet and gained weight? That is exactly because you offered a healthy solution for your liver, and it went out to find all the chemicals stored, and removed them first. What might have happened if you had stayed on the diet, is that you would have reached a threshold on the chemical removal in your body, and then, and only then, would your fat start to be removed from your stored cells. It takes time if you have been constantly adding to the the stored fat in your body, and at the same time, adding so many chemicals and preservatives.

Drop and Lose Weight with a Simple Cooking Tool


One way to easily and quickly remove chemicals from your diet, is to use cast iron pans, or the new green pans that offer a ceramic base to their non-stick surface. You can really build a great chemical free cooking platform with pans that are stainless steel and heavy duty, but it takes some skill to keep them non-stick. Heating an stainless steel pan to a high temperature, and then dropping the temperature when the food is added, will bring a non-stick reaction to most all white omelets, and offer you good browning techniques as well. I have attached a great video to help you with your pan choice, and you only need one pan to get you going. Look for a skillet, that is bigger than you are used to, offering a large cooking surface of more than 12 inches across.



Sunday, February 20, 2011

Reasons Not to Eat Processed Foods

If you are looking to lose weight, and want to continue to see diet success, be sure to eat naturally occurring foods.  This means, you should eat real food, one ingredient foods, and not shelf stable foods.  If you have trouble with this concept, be sure to understand what processed foods do to your weight loss plans.

Eating chemical and preservatives, only will create a solid platform of stored fat reserves, and new fat reserves. The reason is, your liver will be too busy, removing and evicting toxins, chemicals, and preservatives.  There are many people that continue to gain weight, but eat low calorie items, but process items only.  They are creating the perfect storm of hungry days, preservatives, and chemicals, and then unsatisfactory results with their diet or weight loss plan. 

To move you forward, lose weight, and become healthy, you must do all of these steps, to ensure success.  The processed foods, will only create a free radical frenzy, a chemical overload, and your liver will be busy removing these intruders.  Do not forget, that your liver is your fat burning friend.  Without the clean environment, your liver will be too busy, removing toxins, preservatives, and chemicals.  The fat will be stored, and  not removed.

Take out the shelf OK and processed food source, you remove the chemicals.  You are now setting yourself up for some fat burning food assistance.  Watch this diet work, by eating healthy food, and change your life!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

High Protein Diets and Low Fat

Beginning any new diet, it should be something you review with your doctor before you begin.  Most physicians will be very happy to discuss your current eating habits, and guide you towards a healthy way of eating, that will work for you.  That being said, there should be some good news to guide you further in your weight loss efforts, and one is protein and carbohydrate knowledge.

There is much value in eating healthy protein, and eating just enough to provide fuel and energy to your day.  Then, fill in around the protein, but adding fresh vegetables and fruit.  It will be important for you to eat what you love, and do it with great chicken, beef, and fish, and keep it lean.  Do not smother your protein in startches and sugar sauces.  Keep away from gravies with lots of sodium that are hard on your liver.  Season with citrus, and with celtic salt.  Vinegars are a great way to add some flavor.

Then, steam some veggies, and add in some herb seasoning.  Keep your cooking time down to a minimum.  Saute some fish with some onions, chive and some lemon juice.  Use your coconut oil, with some crispy fried sweet potatoes on the side.  Do not smother in any sweet or salty sauces, as that is devil of the food world.

This way, you are doing a form of the protein diet craze, but keep your fruits and veggies always around to keep you going.  If you are just eating cheesy hamburgers with no bun, and nothing else for weeks, you are not getting the vitamins and minerals you need.  It is not a way to live.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Learning about Fats

Sometimes, it takes some time to really get used to the changes in your diet when you start on a new lifestyle path.  It is a matter of being educated on what food is good for you, and letting go about what you knew before.  After all, the information and feelings you had before, where not working for you.  It is simple.  The new lifestyle involves transformation, and one area where you can update your life, is learning about fats.

Fats: Good and Bad

Take some time to really understand that Trans Fats, are not a good thing.  Even when a label on a package says, transfat free, you may have some trans fat that is included in this food.  If you are looking for a healthy diet to lose weight, do not be fooled by this label.  Often, the manufacturer is within the limits of where the government will allow them to function on the warning.  The only way to lose weight easily, is to completely remove all forms of Trans Fats.  They are a very Bad Fat.

Then, there are the poly, mono and unsaturated, and saturated fats.  No wonder the population is so overweight!  The fact is the difference between fats and oils, is whether they are liquid or solid.  A saturated fat is a solid fat.  A unsaturated fat is a liquid oil at room temperature.  If you move an unsaturated fat to a cold temperature, it as well, will become solid.  As well, a saturated fat, when heated, will become liquid.   Confused?  I was, until I discovered these three good fats:

  1. Coconut Oil
  2. Olive Oil
  3. Palm Oil
The saturated coconut oil, is easily turned to liquid in your hands.  In fact, this could be the only fat you will  need.  When you begin your healthy eating life, do yourself a favor and never buy any corn based oil, or any animal based oils, like butter.  It will be better for you at the beginning to use only organic and plant-based saturated fats, like coconut oil.  It has a good flash point, which means it can handle a hot skillet, can be baked for excellent fiber breads and muffins, and is a good way to add your  healthy fat to your diet.

Bad fats are easy to find, and they are everywhere!  Look for these fats as:

  • Partially Hydrogenated Oil like margarine, or solid shelf baking sticks
  • Corn Oil
  • Soybean Oils
  • Canola Oils
  • Safflower Oil
You need to know too, if you are going to deep fry a protein, use a high flash point oil, like peanut oil.  It is available in an organic form, as the traditional peanut oils often are full of chemical remnants from the fertilizers and pesticides to grow the peanut. Any time you can buy organic, do so, as your ability to lose weight fast and safe will be increased tremendously.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Why Tea works so well to Assist you In Weight Loss

If you are looking for an easy way to drop 5 pounds in a month, without changing more than one thing, do this, drink warm and cold tea!  Do not drink soda, change to tea, and just drink water and tea with every meal, between meals, and instead of coffee.  You will be amazed at how great this works!

Tea has an amazing amount of flavinoids, anti-oxidants, and true worth in terms of sodium free drink value.  It can bring you further in your weight loss efforts, as you will drop many chemicals by drinking tea.  Your liver will then be able to focus on your stored fat reserves, versus your intake of chemical laden sodas or pop beverages.

The key to this is to ensure you do not add any artificial sweeteners, sugars or other chemical type taste additives.  There are many healthy sounding teas, that have chemicals laden in the sweetener, that you should avoid.  The key is to buy a great black tea, and brew a cup at a time, enjoying the process and the beauty of the drink.

You will have much to gain by boosting your immunity, your intake of healthy drinking practices, and a better way to ensure a new lifestyle moving forward.  Please be sure to let me know how you are doing with this change, and what your results have been.  I bet you feel better within a few days!